Welcome to AP Environmental Science! Always try your BEST & this class will be FUN!

Parents & Students:
  • What does "AP" mean?? See the College Board resources: click here.
  • What does AP Environmental mean? Click here
  • The AP Test: Monday, May 6, 2013.
    • 100 Multiple choice questions, 4 Free Response Questions (essays), No calculators
    • Value if passed: 3 college credits!
    • Tips for students

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Budget document


LINKS:
Geologic Timeline Visual Tour
Geologic Timeline Webquest
El Nino Southern Oscillation data
ENSO Link #2
CarbonTIME Pretest
Textbook companion site
Review Online with Quizzes
APES Web Resources
Environmental Council
Encyclopedia of Earth
Earth Touch Videos
Ecological Footprint Calculator
Science Seminar ("Current Events") Guidelines:
Acceptable sources: BBC Science & Environment, Environmental News Network, National Geographic Environment, or Emerging Nanotechnologies
Chapter core concepts worksheet:
Course information packet:

CLASS NOTES
HOMEWORK:
Unit 0: Background Math Skills
Help with "factor label method" (conversions)!
Helpful Website
Dimensional Analysis Video
Khan Academy VIDEOS
LONG DIVISION

1) Multiplying fractions
2) Basic Method
3) Metric Conversions
4) More metric

Scientific Notation
1) Review
2) Practice problems I
3) Practice Problems II
Significant Figures
1) Review
2) During calculations
Due Fri, 3/22: Study for POLLUTION (student seminars & classwork) & POPULATION (Ch 6) test.
Due ongoing: Science Seminar presentations: POLLUTION: Research presentation AND guided handout for peers.
Due Mon, 3/11: Practice Long Division HERE AND Graph your two countries' population pyramids AND complete the Chapter 5.3 & 6 packet with population calculation practice problems.
Due Thurs, 2/28: Create a poster of carbon pools for your 1 m x 1 m plot.
Due Tues, 2/26: Read handout about Carbon pools
Due Mon, 2/11: Core concepts & online quiz for Ch 5 (Optional extra credit for also doing chapter 4).
Due Fri, 2/8: Prepare for a nitrogen cycle & eutrophication quiz
Due Thurs, 2/7: Graphic organizers on the back of TWO readings: Nitrogen cycle & Eutrophication
Due Tues, 12/18: Surface area : volume ratio worksheet, #1-5
Due Fri, 12/7: Core Concepts, Ch 12.
Due Thurs, 12/6: Revised experimental procedure for porosity & permeability
Due Mon 12/3: Start Experiment #2 in your lab book where you (1) Answer the pre-lab questions, and (2) Invent a hypothesis and method for measuring soil porosity and permeability. See the assignment sheet:
Due Fri, 11/30: Complete the Ch 19 Packet; be prepared for a Factor label Friday & Ch 19 quiz.
Due Wed, 11/28: Finish the soil graphic organizer for Ch 12 Section 3, and use the first three nutrients from this for the back.
Due Tues, 11/27: Reflection on your grade (front & back; look on SchoolNet for your % grade).
Due Tues, 11/20: Core concepts from Ch 18.
Due Tues, 11/13: 3-paragraph essay evaluating the three aspects of public speaking in "An Inconvenient Truth" film. See details here:
Due Thurs, 11/8: Get AP sign-up sheet signed and bring in the $5 ASAP. Work on your next Science Seminar presentation.
Due Mon, 11/5: Core Concepts: Ch 3.2 and Ch 19.4.
Due Thurs, 11/1: Be prepared for a Geologic Timeline Quiz.
Due Tues, 10/30: Geologic Time Webquest
Due Fri, 10/26: Thorough answers to both FRQ questions assigned Monday. Answers should be hand-written on separate paper and stapled to the handout.
Due Thurs, 10/25: Complete the ENSO project from class Tuesday.
Due Tues, 10/23: (1) Research and answer #1-3 on the back of the "Preparing for FRQs" (2) READ both FRQ questions assigned today.
Due Mon, 10/22: Try the test calculation questions again; open notes.
Due Wed, 10/17: Study for the Earth's Energy Budget Test 10/17!
Due Tues., 10/16: Finish the Insolation/Seasons Lab. See today's notes to the left ("Insolation Lab").
Due FRI, 10/12: (1) Radish seed germination lab report (individual) & visual aid for your presentation (team).
Due Thurs, 10/11: Read the Thermodynamics article and answer questions #1-10 using complete sentences.
Due Wed, 10/10 @ 8pm: Send me your email account so I can add you to our wiki website!
Due Fri 10/5: Earthquake project. NOTE: YOU MAY CHOSE ANY THREE CITIES THAT BORDER THE PACIFIC or INDIAN OCEANS (including international cities).
Due Wed, 10/3: (1) Simpson's Experimental design worksheet, (2) Core concepts. 2 for each: Ch 14.1, 14.2, 18.1 and S47-49 (in the back of the book). Geosphere Test
Due 9/6/12: Summer HW articles, math packet, and graphing packet. Read the directions, please!!!
Due 9/12: Practice problems (metric system; front & back except for the riddle (#4)
Due 9/13: SOLUTIONS (showing work in the factor label method) to the word problems. Bring questions to class to ask before the test!Scientific notation review - Quiz!
Due 9/19: Personal narrative (what you are most proud of and what your top THREE VALUES/PRIORITIES are). Max: 2 pages, Min: 2 paragraphs. Typed for extra credit.
Due Fri, 9/21: (Website) Neatness counts!
Due Mon, 9/24: Chapter 1 Core Concepts.
Due Tues, 9/25: Study your webquest for a plate tectonics quiz (3 types of plate boundaries and the stress and fault ​type ​associated with each.